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Robot Wars Extreme: Series 2 was the second series of Robot Wars Extreme. Unlike the first series of Extreme, which featured a variety of battles in each episode, and tournaments spread over several episodes, each episode was dedicated to a particular tournament (Except for the Robot Rampage, which had a variety of small tournaments for lower weight classes). It was originally broadcast in early 2003 on BBC Choice and repeated later in 2003 on BBC Two. However, as Five bought the rights to the show while the series was running, the final three episodes were never shown on BBC Two. The series was hosted by Craig Charles, the pit reporter was Philippa Forrester and commentary was provided by Jonathan Pearce.

The series was re-run on the British television channel Dave during the summer and winter of 2011, replacing the re-runs of Robot Wars Extreme: Series 1 which had run between the summer and winter months of 2010. Dave currently have the rights to both series of Robot Wars Extreme and rerun the series occasionally. Challenge showed repeats of Extreme: Series 2 from January 28th to February 18th 2016.

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The series consisted of 11 separate tournaments and one-off battles, with each episode devoted to a specific tournament or group of battles. The second Extreme series contained fewer one-off battles and focused more on small tournaments, such as the European Championship and the New Blood Championship, in which newcomers to Robot Wars battled for a place in The Seventh Wars.

Like the previous tournament, held in the previous Extreme series, the All-Stars tournament featured the "best of the best". This year, the competing robots were the finalists and semi-finalists from Series 6. However, Wild Thing did not compete in this series, so was replaced by Chaos 2.

This year's format was of two heats, with the two heat winners meeting in the Grand Final.

In this tournament, first seen in the Fourth Wars, robots were paired up into teams to fight each other. Only one robot from each team was allowed in the arena at a time and the teams could switch robots by 'tagging' them.

In this tournament, newcomers to the wars competed against one another, alongside robots who had only appeared briefly in The Sixth Wars. The winner would win automatic entry to The Seventh Wars, and it was later determined that said winner would be awarded the 16th seed in Series 7.

After the last Challenge Belt competition, Tornado had only won two of the three battles it needed to keep its second belt outright. This tournament featured eight robots fighting for the right to take it on at the end of the show. To get to Tornado, they first had to get past each other.